Thursday, October 11, 2012

Court reverses injunction that likely shouldn't have been granted

Back in the start of the summer Apple was granted an injunction against the Samsung Galaxy Nexus based on the ‘604 universal search patent. The court has reversed its decision based on the fact that Apple had not shown that universal search was a main selling feature of the phone. I realize that injunctions such as this require expediency in the legal system in order to be effective however an issue such as this must surely have been in the mind of the court when granting the injunction. I understand that Apple has many patents and is merely utilizing them to ensure competition is increased in the marketplace but it is quite a stretch to believe that people are buying phones based on unified search. I think we will be seeing more of this as the courts delve deeper into Apple’s patents and find that many of them are overly broad or have some prior art to invalidate them. 

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Apple continues to unlock the patent system


Apple has just been granted another patent on Slide to unlock that creates a much broader claim. The new claim eliminates the proviso of the slide having to move along a predetermined path. Many of the workarounds to the previous patents involved eliminated the predetermined path and adding other options to the unlock such as in Android’s ICS and Jellybean implementations. This new patent broadens the scope of Apple’s claims and it will be interesting to see if this one holds up in the courts or if it will be shot down for been overly broad.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Motorola drops the latest ITC patent infringement against Apple

Is Google stopping litigation against Apple? Was there a settlement made behind the scenes? I am very curious to know as to why this case was dropped alas I do not think we will find the answers any time soon.


Motorola drops the latest ITC patent infringement against Apple

Siri's new movie reviews

These are pretty awesome reviews…for a robot


Siri's new movie reviews

Here's Your Chance To Win A Role On 'Arrested Development'

This isn’t really in the description of my account but I felt it was too awesome not to share.


Here's Your Chance To Win A Role On 'Arrested Development'

Monday, October 1, 2012

Me and this iPhone, we’re going places.



Not literally, of course. I hear the new maps are terrible.



The Verge’s Paul Miller in his Offline column